74 ‘ Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
III. Astronomy. 
other a are sy to be heard from. The probabilities are that 
aoe success has been attained, on the whole, than could reason- 
ably have been expected, and that the successes have, in the main, 
been at the more amportant stations for determining the parallax. 
IV. MisceLLANEous ScrentiFic INTELLIGENCE. 
1, Exploration in South America.—Prof. ALEXANDER AGAssiZ 
America, ee anes to Chili and Bolivia. At Lake —— he 
expects to dredge, ee making temperature observatio 
arman, 0 ithe useum of Comparative Zoology, accom apa 
him, and will go directly t to Lake Titicaca a collect. Mr. Agassiz’s — 
health has been poor, since the great afflictions which befel him im 
the death of his father and, almost immediately after, that of his 
gifted wife. It is now somewhat im mproved, and it is believed that 
the journey will make the restoration complete. 
bservatory at Cordoba, Argentine Republic-—Dr. 
Gov p, the astronomer, after a brief visit to his home and friends 
at Boston, has left again for Cordoba, to resume his great work 
there with regard to the southern constellations, which is now far 
advanced toward completion. | 
fions of the Colorado.—Major J. W. Po OWELL, the eX 
plorer of the Cafions of the Coloeklas has a valuable article on 
the Colorado Basin and its Cafions in the January nu mber of — 
Scribner’s Monthly. With the usual liberality of this. eer : 
n be brought out for use only through laborious a : 
er tical study on the part of one who understands ~~ the philo- 
sophical bearing of the facts. Such a study has been made of the 
‘returns of the recent United States Census b Mr. Wa Iker, His 
Statistical Atlas, Parts I. and IIL. of which have recently beet — 
published, presents to the eye the chief results arrived at, and at — 
tests, in oT part, to the learning, judgment, and thoroughness 
of the author. By means of maps and diagrams the great facts — 
in political and social science are made readily and oer 3 
